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Scary stuff, a possible Darwin nominee here.
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Blimey!
How scary is that? I won't get under mine with less than 2 axel stands.
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He's got 2 of them - what's your problem JaB?
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Wonder how he got it up at that angle in the first place?
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What's the betting that it's the petrol tank he's welding, and it's still full too?
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Have a look round a typical boatyard and you will see that this is the standard way of propping up boats on dry land, and they often weigh ten times that of the truck.
The wooden strut is in itself probably quite stable. It is the thought of what happens when he leans back on it that would scare me.
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Have a look round a typical boatyard and you will see that this is the standard way of propping up boats on dry land,
Boats propped securely are not a problem, remember tho' that a baot is usually propped on both sides thuis creating a stable triangle, that bloke is just plain nuts...
JaB
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The triangle is only as stable as the friction between the strut & the ground.
In fact, even with a boat, it is unlikely to be perfectly balanced - it will be leaning one way or another.
Nuts? Bananas more like!
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The triangle is only as stable as the friction between the strut & the ground. In fact, even with a boat, it is unlikely to be perfectly balanced - it will be leaning one way or another. Nuts? Bananas more like!
Yes, that is correct but for some reason I'm never bothered about working on the hull of my boat...
The props at the boatyard I use have "feet" on them, there are also about 6 props and a keel to keep the boat upright :-D
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Looks like a mouse trap. It's just held by the friction of the corner of the strut to the ground and the angle's not that good. I'd what a brace or a peg hammered into the ground. Trouble with this sort of thing is you get away with it for awhile, but one day...
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You must have scarily big mice where you live...
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Actually, I don't think it's quite as unstable as it looks.
The props are forming triangles and as the force would be trying to describe an arc around a fulcrum of the wheels on the ground they are pretty much at 90 degrees to that arc, which is pretty well where they would want to be. Not ideal conditions granted but probably not as iffy as it first looks.
For something that looks well iffy ask Growler about the bamboo scaffolding they use in the Far East lashed together with twine. Now that does look bad but I'll bet it's not as dangerous as you would first think. We have become conditioned to the fact that if something isn't secured in at least ten places then it must be 'dangerous' when really the risks are quite small.
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True: you might just be surprised to find it's less flakey than it looks (not that I'd trust it.....) Of course if it should come down matey would be stuffed.
Here where I live I've seen huge buses propped up with a few breeze blocks, oh, too much to mention. The most horrible (thank God I missed it) was a local garage where a chap had all the wheels off a large water tanker, all axles supported on breeze blocks while he was working underneath, when one of his mates trying to manoeuvre another truck backed into the wheel-less water truck and well.....
Mind you I used to crawl under my old Chevy with just the bumper jack supporting it; older and wiser now.
OT but Cockle's point. In Hong Kong the most glitzy 50 storey office blocks, even those built by companies whose names you would well recognise in UK, are still contructed entirely with bamboo scaffolding lashed together and chaps shinning up and down it in flip-flops. It is incredibly strong and stable. It used to give me the creeps seeing some little guy with no harness 200 feet up hanging off with one hand, though, or tippy-toeing across an iron girder with an awesome drop below.
I believe now in UK you need a hard hat just to bang a nail in to hang the pictures in your lounge room and the EU has described in 431 pages the right way to do this. It's a wonder anything gets done at all......
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>>you need a hard hat just to bang a nail in to hang the pictures in your lounge room
No, we still use a hammer.
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- but it has to have a rubber end
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A lounge with a rubber end? Do your suit jackets have lots of buckles and fit backwards?
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Nice to see he's used a brick to chock the rear wheel. That will help enormously.
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>>Nice to see he's used a brick to chock the rear wheel. That will help enormously
Faced with that scenario would you rather not chock the rear wheel?????? Should limit front-to-back movement which should make sure that the house-of-cards doesn't come crashing down quite so easily.
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Faced with the scenario I'd find a garage with a power lift and nip into town for a couple of hours while the garage completed the welding.
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Faced with the scenario I'd find a garage with a power lift and nip into town for a couple of hours while the garage completed the welding.
Looking at the pitcure, I fear that the gentleman in question may be somewhat fiscally-challenged. The option of paying someone to do the welding may be a non-starter
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Strange. Most tractors have sufficient ground-clearance not to need to jack them up.
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Strange. Most tractors have sufficient ground-clearance not to need to jack them up.
Oi! At least I don't have problems with suspension fowling.
(It's that four-sprung duck technique)
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Strange. Most tractors have sufficient ground-clearance not to need to jack them up.
mapmaker, the tractor in question is Italian. Function isn't allowed to interfere with form ;-)
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